Carrie Fertig is a socially engaged interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, sound, installation, sculpture, and virtual reality. She is lead artist for the Creative Scotland supported Health of the Sublime in the Mearns, which maps the lived experience of wellbeing in the natural world through the lens of climate change. Partnered with charity Mearns and Coastal Healthy Living Network, the project offers free tuition in video, audio, nature writing/poetry, and virtual reality for older inhabitants of Kincardineshire, Scotland. She is also a maker working close to zero waste in flameworked glass and metals and is a member of Closing the Loop and is Membership Secretary of AAS.
Fertig often uses glass in projects for its sonic potential and its ability to be a blank canvas for participants to explore vital human topics. Long term projects include making compelling environments in which to die, environments where people can discover and examine their deepest selves and that which they hold most close to their hearts,
In spring 2021 Fertig developed Plummet, a performance/video work using glass for climate crisis centred UNFIX Festival, supported by Aberdeenshire-based arts centre The Barn, in the inaugural UNFIX Residency. Fertig uses glass to cause good in the world, increase well-being, and open the dialogue about what craft is, its potential for transformation, and how hands-on making can influence behavioural change toward a just transition.
